Today in HistoryToday is Wednesday, September 13, the 256th day of 2006. There are 109 days left in the year.

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In 1759, during the final French and Indian War, the British defeated the French on the Plains of Abraham overlooking Quebec City.

In 1922, the highest shade temperature on the earth’s surface was recorded in El Azizia, Libya, which reached 136.4 degrees Fahrenheit.

In 1942, the German army began an all-out attack on Stalingrad against stiff Soviet resistance.

In 1971, a four-day inmates’ rebellion at the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York ended as police and guards stormed the prison; the ordeal and final assault claimed 43 lives.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

“Revolt and terror pay a price. Order and law have a cost.” — Carl Sandburg, American poet and author (1878-1967).